Partners Crossing Boundaries Reception

Since the early 70’s, Terrance DePietro has been exhibiting in group and one-person shows internationally - New York, Paris, Quebec and Montreal City. His primary studio is in Palenville, New York for more than forty years. For over thirty-five years, his work involves issues that spring forth from subjects of 'otherness' and the 'Abstract-Sublime.’ His process traces the evolution of a set of images in several mediums: Oil painting, watercolor, block printing, photography, writing and uses the latest digital tools and technologies to reconcile between internal and external. What we know, perceive, feel, imagine, and what we can or cannot conceptualize are all captured through his leap from one medium to the next. His achievement culminates in the unique impressions shown, the ultimate leap between traditional mediums applied through new method.

Nicole Lemelin’s interest spans from exploration to interpretation, addressing the paradox between research and stamen. Her work and expertise traces through decades of exploration into the unconscious, imagination, and language of image beyond the issue of ‘feeling.’ Each piece becomes a marker, a fragment of reality, arrived at through a creative process and interpretation after the fact, apart from any subjectivity of the artist while allowing complete freedom of interpretation by the viewer. Born in Quebec City, Lemelin maintains studios in both Montreal, PQ and Palenville NY. During the early 1990s she was part of the avant grade exhibits at Gallery Rouge in Quebec City and by the mid-90s had connected with similar minded artists, working in the Hudson Valley of New York. At the turn of the millennium, she was part of the Cross Street Gallery stable of painters and exhibited in the gallery’s major exhibits, curated by Bernard X Bovasso, involving expressionistic paintings of the abstract nature.